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- Robert Brown observes Brownian motion in pollen whole source
Brownian motion was named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, who in 1828 had published detailed observations about how minuscule poll…
- Einstein publishes the equivalence principle whole source
In November 1907, working against the deadline imposed by the Yearbook of Radioactivity and Electronics, Einstein tacked on a fifth section…
- Einstein becomes privatdozent at University of Bern whole source
The paper he submitted, an extension of his revolutionary work on light quanta, was promptly accepted, and at the end of February 1908, he w…
- Began lecturing at University of Bern whole source
His topic for the summer of 1908 was the theory of heat, held on Tuesday and Saturday at 7 a.m., and he initially attracted only three atten…
- Einstein begins the Zurich Notebook on field equations whole source
Beginning in that summer of 1912, Einstein struggled to develop gravitational field equations using tensors along the lines developed by Rie…
- Besso helps Einstein study Mercury's orbit whole source
His confidence in the theory was not strengthened when he sat down with his old friend Michele Besso, who had come to visit him in June 1913…
- Einstein sails to America for the first time whole source
And so it was that the Einsteins sailed from Holland on March 21, 1921, for their first visit to America. To keep things unpretentious and i…
- Arrived at Battery in Manhattan, New York whole source
When the ship pulled up to the Battery in lower Manhattan on the afternoon of April 2, Einstein was standing on the deck wearing a faded gra…
- Einstein visits the White House and meets Harding whole source
When Einstein went with a group to the White House on April 25, President Warren G. Harding would be faced with the question of whether he u…
- Solvay Conference debates quantum mechanics whole source
Present at the first, in October 1927, were the three grand masters who had helped launch the new era of physics but were now skeptical of t…
- Einstein befriends Queen Elisabeth whole source
These two simple people are of a purity and goodness
- Einstein meets Winston Churchill whole source
He is an eminently wise man
- Locker-Lampson parliamentary bill whole source
She has turned out her most glorious citizen, Albert Einstein
- Einstein visits son Eduard whole source
I could not wait six weeks before going to see him
- Summer vacation in Melchtal whole source
Newly graduated, carrying his Kirchhoff and other physics books, Einstein arrived at the end of July 1900
- Weber refuses to hire Einstein at Zurich Polytechnic whole source
By late September, Einstein was still staying with his parents in Milan and had not received an offer
- Einstein's doctoral dissertation accepted at Zurich whole source
He completed on April 30 and submitted to the University of Zurich in July
- Einstein publishes his Brownian motion paper whole source
Eleven days after finishing his dissertation, Einstein produced another paper exploring evidence of things unseen
- Millikan verifies Einstein's photoelectric effect law whole source
The physicist who did the crucial experiment was Robert Millikan, who would later head the California Institute of Technology
- Einstein submits special relativity paper whole source
the famous paper that the Annalen der Physik received on June 30, 1905
- Einstein and Grossmann publish the Entwurf theory whole source
In May 1913, having discarded the equations derived from the mathematical strategy, Einstein and Grossmann produced a sketchy alternative th…
- Einstein's unified field theory paper released whole source
One set of pages was pasted in the window of a London department store, where crowds pushed forward to try to comprehend the complex mathema…
- Einstein abandons his unified field theory whole source
Pauli was right. Einstein gave up the theory within a year. But he did not give up the quest